I found the ship records from Copenhagen to Ellis Island, Dec. 1920, for mother & daughter's emigration from Poland to Brooklyn, NY & a pho of the ship. It is posted on the Silverman family page. I can only imagine how big it must have seemed to an 8yo little girl. I joined Ellis Island.org & finally found the records. I joined the Jewish Gen data base & found records for Hertz (Sarah Silverman's maiden name) at Polish Gen: http://www.jri-poland.org/index.htm She lived outside Lublin, Poland. Records for Lublin Province's Hertz births are at: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~jripllat2 I found no record of Sarah's birth in 1911. I did find Sarah's arrival at Ellis Island at age 8 with her mother listed as Girt Hertz from Lublin, Poland on Dec. 21, 1920: http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passRecord.asp?MID=18910070200888949952&LNM=HERTZ&PLNM=HERTZ&last_kind=0&TOWN=null&SHIP=null&RF=613&pID=100328080105I added several Silverman records from the Hearne Democrat and historical web sites also on Jake, Alex, and Maurice Silverman. Also added were Sarah & Bill Silverman's listing in a Milwaukee temple. At Genealogy.com, I found a good article on name changes at Ellis Island & how they were created by the shipping companies in the original country, not the Ellis clerks. Some families used as "public" name as well as a "private" name as there were no name rules in the early 1900s. Family genealogy for them would be very complicated as different names might appear in different records. Gitler on the passenger list became Gertrude Hertz in the US. See: http://www.genealogy.com/88_donna.html

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by Linda Parker Woodward

Oldest daughter of 4 born to Dr. Sterling Glen & Margery Butler Parker in Oak Park, IL. Worked as corporate/technical writer for 45 years in Ann Arbor & Houston before retiring to Atlanta area. Daughter is Dr. Stacey Cathleen Heit, married to Dr. Larry Heit; they have 4 children, my GC. Various homes as troop train baby while dad was in Adak in WWII but settled in Decatur, IL in 1948-1960. M.A. in English, The U of Michigan; B.S. in Educ., Northwestern U-Evanston.